I find this hard to believe, let's see the emails that they 'might not be allowed to post'. Otherwise, it's just them trying to get attention and traffic, in my opinion.
I'm going to make a very obvious statement and ask what this means for blogs. If you can strongarm anyone into un-linking something, then where will blogs be able to go?
Also, what the hell was ZDNet thinking, the folks at pocketpctools.com were sending them traffic!
It is free, look on the site:
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I go to ODU right now, and you know what I'd appreciate?
I'd appreciate it if they moved the fucking massive blockades on the sidewalk that they've constructed so I can get to class instead of walking my elbow to get to my ass.
I'd also like it if they fucking made one of these all the way out to the beach, because currently the drive costs a few bucks worth of gas and the traffic sucks.
AIM:scallion9000
That's a very ignorant point of view you have - I grew up speaking Spanish, German, and English, but I never needed to install support for another language on my box; I, too didn't see the whole need for different software; support, maybe, but not software.
Now, I do see the new need, but I didn't need a fucking faggot-ass troll like you to shout it at me.
This here is a prime example of stupid geeks. No, this isn't a troll; nor flamebait.
I think the coder that released this program is pretty good at coding, pretty smart overall probably, but it really annoys me that the whole society of geeks/coders/slashdot kinda people in general whine and gripe about not having a good solution to music sharing, and then when one comes out... it's cool until someone finds a runaround.
iTunes is a cool system and I like it a lot; I sure hope that Apple finds a way to circumvent this before the music industry that was pretty nice (although they're monsters usually) goes back and calls this a new napster/kazaa/etc.
And I certainly hope coders in the future think about the consequences of what they write before they write it.
In other news, several test subjects have been volunteered by the technology industry, including a few SCO executives and a certain "Cary Sherman" from the RIAA...
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
So...when Mozilla/Opera does this, it's a cool feature, but when MS does it, it's instantly a jacked up feature that we should patent? What if MS did it first and Mozilla followed? Nobody would make the crack at it.
Not everything MS does is bad; maybe late, but better now than never. This is unwarrented random MS bashing when they're actually trying to catch up with the rest of software out there.
I guess if MS ever turned around and became cool,/. would still bash it as it came through the process just for the hell of it. Just like IBM.
Dr Geraint Thomas, head of the Centre for Explosion Studies, who led the research, said that the 2,500kg of gunpowder Guy Fawkes was found with, would be equivalent to the same amount of TNT today.
So, uh...what's the general difference between gunpowder and TNT? I mean, both are a pure form of salt peter and whatnot, basically a normal explosive.
Anyway, I'm also curious as to whether they took the differences in construction into effect, given that in 1605, artitecture was more solid (solid stone/marble) or very much weaker (wood).
2003-11-03: New X The freedesktop.org X hacking is low-profile unstableware at the moment, but one particular proposal interests me the most. Here is how I understand it, I'll probably get it wrong:
The idea is to make the X server model-view. The server stores a tree of windows as it does now. However, unlike today, it keeps the full contents of each mapped window in memory at all times. For each window, the default view copies the window's contents over the contents of the parent window. This results in the same user-visible display you have today - but you could implement alpha blended windows by alpha compositing rather than copying each window into its parent, since we now have the parent window's contents.
To this we add the ability for a "compositing manager" to replace the default view for a given window, using the aXe and XDamage extensions. The window manager might be the compositing manager for toplevel windows, for example.
If a window has a compositing manager, it will not be composited into its parent automatically; the window is invisible until the compositing manager does something. An external compositing manager could emulate the default built-in compositing manager by using XCopyArea() (or alpha-aware equivalent) to copy windows into their parents.
However, a more exciting compositing manager might apply embellishments/transformations to the window contents prior to drawing them, possibly drawing them using an API such as OpenGL. For example, you could add drop shadows. Or you could do effects similar to fast user switching or Expose. Or you could double-buffer the entire screen as a whole making workspace-switching, opaque resize, and other tasks flicker free. The compositing manager is rendering a scene in which the window contents are one element, so the possibilities are endless.
Note that the window contents stay entirely on the server side, the compositing manager uses regular X protocol requests to manipulate them.
Apps other than the single compositing manager can also use the damage extension; possible applications include VNC (desktop sharing), magnifiers, pagers with thumbnailing, and so forth. The compositing manager is a special kind of view in that it disables the default paint of the window to its parent, and is thus responsible for replacing that default paint. But there can be any number of extra views of a window.
There are a lot of little complexities and open questions here, but the idea is pretty interesting. I'm waiting for something I can try out to appear in jhbuild so I can make metacity super-leet.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
Interesting. I'd hope that they get some money so that we can keep enjoying this, but at the same time, the words 'trial' and 'licenses' worry me a little. Been spending too much time GNU!
Mirror just in case that server (which seems piddly) gets/.'ed:
LINUXANT RELEASES NEW DRIVERLOADER(TM) FOR INTEL CENTRINO, INTERSIL, BROADCOM, ATHEROS, AND OTHER WIRELESS LAN DEVICES
MONTREAL, QC Oct. 27, 2003 - Linuxant inc., a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services is announcing the immediate availability of DriverLoader(TM) 1.2, a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems.
The main highlight of this new release is significant compatibility improvements with simultaneous support for multiple Windows drivers. DriverLoader 1.2 now supports Intel PRO/Wireless (Centrino), Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo, Broadcom, Atheros, and other Wireless LAN drivers for Windows.
Linuxant is committed to continue improving DriverLoader so that it becomes a fully compatible generic solution capable of running the majority of Windows NDIS drivers.
DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same NDIS driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. All Linux-specific code in DriverLoader remains open-source, allowing it to be used under any supported version of the kernel.
Thanks to DriverLoader, owners of Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) with compatible Windows drivers can now use their devices under Linux, enjoying the full speed of the latest Wireless LAN technology with the freedom of the renowned open-source operating-system.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*. The software is easy to install on standard Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and derivatives) with any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and includes a user-friendly Web-based configuration system.
Vendors interested in using DriverLoader technology to enable their products under Linux should contact services@linuxant.com.
For more information or to download your copy of DriverLoader, please go to http://www.linuxant.com
About Linuxant
Linuxant is a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services. Linuxant works closely with leading vendors and OEMs of semiconductor, PC, embedded and communication/wireless products, as well as with companies in other industries, providing technological expertise and solutions to maximize the potential of Linux and open-source. Additionally, Linuxant develops and distributes specialized system software, such as device drivers for specific applications.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
From what I read in the article/press release by the EFF, this is going to be a fairly shaky case;
"Publication of the Diebold documents is clear fair use because of their importance to the public debate over the accuracy of electronic voting machines."
How that statement is going to hold up in court would be very interesting; it's debatable how much we the people (in the eyes of the court) should know about the internal workings.
For example, I'd imagine that's why we don't get to listen in on the Supreme Court's discussions; that's a basis for our democratic process, but we don't watch it, we aren't allowed to (no big fuss about that either).
Blah, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Sig & Below
In fact, I'll be a total KarmaWhore and just post the article right here too:
As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down By BARNABY J. FEDER
When researchers fashion nanomaterials so small that their dimensions can be measured in molecules, the unusual and potentially valuable characteristics of those materials tend to show up immediately. But as businesses race to exploit those benefits, investors and policy makers are finding that pinpointing the potential environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology could take years.
In fact, the first stages of environmental impact research are generating more new questions than answers.
Take the experience of researchers at DuPont, who are testing microscopic tubes of carbon, known as nanotubes, valued for their extraordinary strength and electrical conductivity. When the researchers injected nanotubes into the lungs of rats in the summer of 2002, the animals unexpectedly began gasping for breath. Fifteen percent of them quickly died.
"It was the highest death rate we had ever seen," said David B. Warheit, the research leader, who began his career studying asbestos and has been testing the pulmonary effects of various chemicals for DuPont since 1984.
Yet surprisingly, all the surviving rats seemed completely normal within 24 hours.
What initially looked like disaster pointed to a possible safety feature: the nanotubes' tendency to clump rapidly led to suffocation for some rats exposed to huge doses, but it also kept most tubes from reaching deep regions of the lung where they could not be expelled by coughing and could cause long-term damage. Now researchers see the clumping of carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials as a new field for inquiry.
The DuPont research is among the most sophisticated efforts to date to examine potential hazards of nanoscale materials, generally defined as those with at least one dimension less than 100 nanometers (a nanometer is roughly the width of 10 hydrogen atoms). Such materials are already embedded in hundreds of products, including sunscreens and cosmetics, to make them clear; textiles, to make them stain-resistant; and power machinery, to add durability.
Early research has raised troubling issues. DuPont and others, for example, found evidence that the cells that break down foreign particles in rodent lungs have more trouble detecting and handling nanoparticles than larger particles that have long been studied by air pollution experts.
No one has yet created a realistic test for the effects of inhaled nanoparticles; such a test could easily cost more than $1 million to design and carry out, toxicologists say.
Lungs are not the only concern. Research shows that nanoparticles deposited in the nose can make their way directly into the brain. They can also change shape as they move from liquid solutions to the air, making it harder to draw general conclusions about their potential impact on living things.
"It's going to be 10 years before we can answer the 'so what should I do' question for people," said Eva Oberdorster, an aquatic toxicologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Last month, she began studying how the spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs are absorbed by water fleas. Eventually, her research could clarify what effects, if any, release of such nanoparticles into the air and water to monitor or control pollution might have on the food chain.
"This field is in its infancy," agreed Joseph B. Hughes, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who oversees environmental engineering research at the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, which is at Rice University in Houston. "The first papers and first results will have to be cautious. The field is growing so rapidly in the discovery end that questions about their environmental consequences are still being generated."
Today's nanotechnology applications and those nearing commercialization use tiny amounts of the ma
PageRank technology and the general concept of how Google searches & indexes the web is patented. They'd also have to expand into the search business by having a *well known* brandname that was also successful.
On top of that, so many people hate microsoft, they'd just say "oh it sucks" and drop it. This way, however, they would get Google, the proven good, and geeks like me that normally hate MS would use Google just because of it's brandname and known quality.
I wonder if maybe this guy is making excuses for his television channel/station/broadcast industry in general.
CS an other online games don't consume that much time, and somehow I don't think that 20% of males 18-24 just decided to stop watching they're TV's and start playing video games, the typical hallmark of the geek.
Posted by Hemos on Thursday October 23, @09:42PM
from the cataloguing-it-all dept.
zenobr writes "Some 300 scientists from 53 countries are creating a record of all known marine life, in a project reminiscent of an aquatic Domesday Book. So far more than 15,000 species of fish have been catalogued and 2 to 3 thousand more are expected to be catalogued before the project's end in 2010. Over 500 of the fish catalogued thus far are thought to be new to science. Full story on BBC News"
Slashdot Mirror
Judging by the replies in the actual thread he posted on, and the low number of /. replies...who cares?
I find this hard to believe, let's see the emails that they 'might not be allowed to post'. Otherwise, it's just them trying to get attention and traffic, in my opinion.
I'm going to make a very obvious statement and ask what this means for blogs. If you can strongarm anyone into un-linking something, then where will blogs be able to go?
Also, what the hell was ZDNet thinking, the folks at pocketpctools.com were sending them traffic!
It is free, look on the site:
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* No access to fee-based services
* No promotion of your weblogs through the Recently Updated list
* No commercial usage
* No more than one author and three weblogs
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I go to ODU right now, and you know what I'd appreciate? I'd appreciate it if they moved the fucking massive blockades on the sidewalk that they've constructed so I can get to class instead of walking my elbow to get to my ass. I'd also like it if they fucking made one of these all the way out to the beach, because currently the drive costs a few bucks worth of gas and the traffic sucks. AIM:scallion9000
Great idea - but how will they change the data on the tag (i.e. owner of the chip) in-game when someone wins those chips?
You have to have a quick, efficient way of transferring ownership of a chip if you're going to track successfully.
Fuck you very much.
And how do you know that cell is there!?
j/k
That's a very ignorant point of view you have - I grew up speaking Spanish, German, and English, but I never needed to install support for another language on my box; I, too didn't see the whole need for different software; support, maybe, but not software.
Now, I do see the new need, but I didn't need a fucking faggot-ass troll like you to shout it at me.
Apple claimed they liked open source so that they could wean a few more customers over from microsoft, which is the 'anti-open source'.
Apple does everything it can to *not* look like Microsoft, hence, open source.
This here is a prime example of stupid geeks. No, this isn't a troll; nor flamebait.
I think the coder that released this program is pretty good at coding, pretty smart overall probably, but it really annoys me that the whole society of geeks/coders/slashdot kinda people in general whine and gripe about not having a good solution to music sharing, and then when one comes out... it's cool until someone finds a runaround.
iTunes is a cool system and I like it a lot; I sure hope that Apple finds a way to circumvent this before the music industry that was pretty nice (although they're monsters usually) goes back and calls this a new napster/kazaa/etc.
And I certainly hope coders in the future think about the consequences of what they write before they write it.
In other news, several test subjects have been volunteered by the technology industry, including a few SCO executives and a certain "Cary Sherman" from the RIAA...
I for one welcome our new XCOR overlords.
Sorry, I had to do it.
smd4985 writes "Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late. Maybe Mozilla.org/Opera should patent the technology to make it hard for Bill 'embrace and extend' Gates to kill those XCam ads...."
/. would still bash it as it came through the process just for the hell of it. Just like IBM.
So...when Mozilla/Opera does this, it's a cool feature, but when MS does it, it's instantly a jacked up feature that we should patent? What if MS did it first and Mozilla followed? Nobody would make the crack at it.
Not everything MS does is bad; maybe late, but better now than never. This is unwarrented random MS bashing when they're actually trying to catch up with the rest of software out there.
I guess if MS ever turned around and became cool,
Dr Geraint Thomas, head of the Centre for Explosion Studies, who led the research, said that the 2,500kg of gunpowder Guy Fawkes was found with, would be equivalent to the same amount of TNT today.
So, uh...what's the general difference between gunpowder and TNT? I mean, both are a pure form of salt peter and whatnot, basically a normal explosive.
Anyway, I'm also curious as to whether they took the differences in construction into effect, given that in 1605, artitecture was more solid (solid stone/marble) or very much weaker (wood).
For your enjoyment in case this server is /.'ed:
2003-11-03: New X
The freedesktop.org X hacking is low-profile unstableware at the moment, but one particular proposal interests me the most. Here is how I understand it, I'll probably get it wrong:
The idea is to make the X server model-view. The server stores a tree of windows as it does now. However, unlike today, it keeps the full contents of each mapped window in memory at all times. For each window, the default view copies the window's contents over the contents of the parent window. This results in the same user-visible display you have today - but you could implement alpha blended windows by alpha compositing rather than copying each window into its parent, since we now have the parent window's contents.
To this we add the ability for a "compositing manager" to replace the default view for a given window, using the aXe and XDamage extensions. The window manager might be the compositing manager for toplevel windows, for example.
If a window has a compositing manager, it will not be composited into its parent automatically; the window is invisible until the compositing manager does something. An external compositing manager could emulate the default built-in compositing manager by using XCopyArea() (or alpha-aware equivalent) to copy windows into their parents.
However, a more exciting compositing manager might apply embellishments/transformations to the window contents prior to drawing them, possibly drawing them using an API such as OpenGL. For example, you could add drop shadows. Or you could do effects similar to fast user switching or Expose. Or you could double-buffer the entire screen as a whole making workspace-switching, opaque resize, and other tasks flicker free. The compositing manager is rendering a scene in which the window contents are one element, so the possibilities are endless.
Note that the window contents stay entirely on the server side, the compositing manager uses regular X protocol requests to manipulate them.
Apps other than the single compositing manager can also use the damage extension; possible applications include VNC (desktop sharing), magnifiers, pagers with thumbnailing, and so forth. The compositing manager is a special kind of view in that it disables the default paint of the window to its parent, and is thus responsible for replacing that default paint. But there can be any number of extra views of a window.
There are a lot of little complexities and open questions here, but the idea is pretty interesting. I'm waiting for something I can try out to appear in jhbuild so I can make metacity super-leet.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
Interesting. I'd hope that they get some money so that we can keep enjoying this, but at the same time, the words 'trial' and 'licenses' worry me a little. Been spending too much time GNU!
Mirror just in case that server (which seems piddly) gets /.'ed:
LINUXANT RELEASES NEW DRIVERLOADER(TM) FOR INTEL CENTRINO, INTERSIL, BROADCOM, ATHEROS, AND OTHER WIRELESS LAN DEVICES
MONTREAL, QC Oct. 27, 2003 - Linuxant inc., a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services is announcing the immediate availability of DriverLoader(TM) 1.2, a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems.
The main highlight of this new release is significant compatibility improvements with simultaneous support for multiple Windows drivers. DriverLoader 1.2 now supports Intel PRO/Wireless (Centrino), Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo, Broadcom, Atheros, and other Wireless LAN drivers for Windows.
Linuxant is committed to continue improving DriverLoader so that it becomes a fully compatible generic solution capable of running the majority of Windows NDIS drivers.
DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same NDIS driver on both platforms, significant resources can be saved. All Linux-specific code in DriverLoader remains open-source, allowing it to be used under any supported version of the kernel.
Thanks to DriverLoader, owners of Wireless LAN devices (CardBus and PCI) with compatible Windows drivers can now use their devices under Linux, enjoying the full speed of the latest Wireless LAN technology with the freedom of the renowned open-source operating-system.
DriverLoader packages can be downloaded from Linuxant's web site at no cost*. The software is easy to install on standard Linux distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and derivatives) with any recent 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, and includes a user-friendly Web-based configuration system.
Vendors interested in using DriverLoader technology to enable their products under Linux should contact services@linuxant.com.
For more information or to download your copy of DriverLoader, please go to http://www.linuxant.com
About Linuxant Linuxant is a world-class supplier of consulting, software development and professional support services. Linuxant works closely with leading vendors and OEMs of semiconductor, PC, embedded and communication/wireless products, as well as with companies in other industries, providing technological expertise and solutions to maximize the potential of Linux and open-source. Additionally, Linuxant develops and distributes specialized system software, such as device drivers for specific applications.
* Linuxant is happy to provide free trial DriverLoader licenses, while discussions are under way with hardware vendors to finance development costs. Linuxant hopes that DriverLoader will remain free for end-users.
Sig & Below
From what I read in the article/press release by the EFF, this is going to be a fairly shaky case;
"Publication of the Diebold documents is clear fair use because of their importance to the public debate over the accuracy of electronic voting machines."
How that statement is going to hold up in court would be very interesting; it's debatable how much we the people (in the eyes of the court) should know about the internal workings.
For example, I'd imagine that's why we don't get to listen in on the Supreme Court's discussions; that's a basis for our democratic process, but we don't watch it, we aren't allowed to (no big fuss about that either).
Blah, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Sig & Below
In fact, I'll be a total KarmaWhore and just post the article right here too:
As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down
By BARNABY J. FEDER
When researchers fashion nanomaterials so small that their dimensions can be measured in molecules, the unusual and potentially valuable characteristics of those materials tend to show up immediately. But as businesses race to exploit those benefits, investors and policy makers are finding that pinpointing the potential environmental and health impacts of nanotechnology could take years.
In fact, the first stages of environmental impact research are generating more new questions than answers.
Take the experience of researchers at DuPont, who are testing microscopic tubes of carbon, known as nanotubes, valued for their extraordinary strength and electrical conductivity. When the researchers injected nanotubes into the lungs of rats in the summer of 2002, the animals unexpectedly began gasping for breath. Fifteen percent of them quickly died.
"It was the highest death rate we had ever seen," said David B. Warheit, the research leader, who began his career studying asbestos and has been testing the pulmonary effects of various chemicals for DuPont since 1984.
Yet surprisingly, all the surviving rats seemed completely normal within 24 hours.
What initially looked like disaster pointed to a possible safety feature: the nanotubes' tendency to clump rapidly led to suffocation for some rats exposed to huge doses, but it also kept most tubes from reaching deep regions of the lung where they could not be expelled by coughing and could cause long-term damage. Now researchers see the clumping of carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials as a new field for inquiry.
The DuPont research is among the most sophisticated efforts to date to examine potential hazards of nanoscale materials, generally defined as those with at least one dimension less than 100 nanometers (a nanometer is roughly the width of 10 hydrogen atoms). Such materials are already embedded in hundreds of products, including sunscreens and cosmetics, to make them clear; textiles, to make them stain-resistant; and power machinery, to add durability.
Early research has raised troubling issues. DuPont and others, for example, found evidence that the cells that break down foreign particles in rodent lungs have more trouble detecting and handling nanoparticles than larger particles that have long been studied by air pollution experts.
No one has yet created a realistic test for the effects of inhaled nanoparticles; such a test could easily cost more than $1 million to design and carry out, toxicologists say.
Lungs are not the only concern. Research shows that nanoparticles deposited in the nose can make their way directly into the brain. They can also change shape as they move from liquid solutions to the air, making it harder to draw general conclusions about their potential impact on living things.
"It's going to be 10 years before we can answer the 'so what should I do' question for people," said Eva Oberdorster, an aquatic toxicologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Last month, she began studying how the spherical carbon molecules known as buckyballs are absorbed by water fleas. Eventually, her research could clarify what effects, if any, release of such nanoparticles into the air and water to monitor or control pollution might have on the food chain.
"This field is in its infancy," agreed Joseph B. Hughes, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who oversees environmental engineering research at the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, which is at Rice University in Houston. "The first papers and first results will have to be cautious. The field is growing so rapidly in the discovery end that questions about their environmental consequences are still being generated."
Today's nanotechnology applications and those nearing commercialization use tiny amounts of the ma
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Sig & Below
PageRank technology and the general concept of how Google searches & indexes the web is patented. They'd also have to expand into the search business by having a *well known* brandname that was also successful.
On top of that, so many people hate microsoft, they'd just say "oh it sucks" and drop it. This way, however, they would get Google, the proven good, and geeks like me that normally hate MS would use Google just because of it's brandname and known quality.
I wonder if maybe this guy is making excuses for his television channel/station/broadcast industry in general.
CS an other online games don't consume that much time, and somehow I don't think that 20% of males 18-24 just decided to stop watching they're TV's and start playing video games, the typical hallmark of the geek.
cs statistics
Science: 600 New Species of Fish Discovered
Posted by Hemos on Thursday October 23, @09:42PM from the cataloguing-it-all dept. zenobr writes "Some 300 scientists from 53 countries are creating a record of all known marine life, in a project reminiscent of an aquatic Domesday Book. So far more than 15,000 species of fish have been catalogued and 2 to 3 thousand more are expected to be catalogued before the project's end in 2010. Over 500 of the fish catalogued thus far are thought to be new to science. Full story on BBC News"
Which is it, 500 or 600?
Hey, they call a bunch of CD's now a spindle, but the article says you can get like 10 CD's out of a single cob of corn.
So now can I buy a cob of CD's?